“Shut it, you’re using up all the minutes on my talk-til-you-get-head-cancer tariff,” barked Downing Street press officer Malcolm Tucker down his mobile at a lackey in The Thick of It. Thankfully for psychotic spin doctors everywhere, and the rest of us phone freaks, a major clinical review has found no evidence to clearly link mobiles …

Now playing: Watch this: Phone News: HTC’s mixed fortunes 2:44 George Alagiyah stormed off again because we didn’t provide him with the right coloured M&Ms, but thankfully CNET UK’s Richard Trenholm has stepped into the breach to present this week’s Phone News — the show that’s almost literally all about phones. Because there’s a bit about tablets. But we’re not …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S3 leaks and S2 update 3:47 If you want news on phones, George Alagiah is going to be no help to you at all — you’re much better off tuning into Natasha Lomas on CNET UK’s Phone News for the latest mobile messages. Whether it’s free apps draining your Android phone’s battery, updates on …

It’s the sizzling tech launch of the season, but it appears the new iPad is too hot to handle for some people, with complaints emerging of the device overheating. The hot potato on Apple’s support forums is that the iPad — in a fair number of instances — is prone to getting too hot in the lower-left corner, when held …

If you want to protect your Android device from pilfering your pocket in a bout of Bender-esque criminality, you’ll want to tighten up your handset’s security. But nearly six in 10 malware protection apps for Android are, if one may employ the French vernacular, mal at detecting threats. With over 450,000 apps now available on Google Play (aka Android Market), …

Trade in all that tech cluttering your desk, filling your pockets, spilling out of your bag in an unseemly scramble of silicon, because Fujitsu’s new concept gives your gadgetry a group hug in the form of a four-in-one mega-laptop-tablet-camera-phone-zord. This latest Fujitsu Lifebook design slots all four devices together into one powerful planet-defending piece of mega-tech, a bit like Voltron. …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC Explorer 1:42 It’s easy to get distracted by the glitzy phones we drool over on a daily basis here at CNET UK, but the HTC Explorer comes as a timely reminder that sometimes all you need is an easy-to-use phone that looks smart, is smart and can be bought SIM-free for only £130. Leaving the …

Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and IdeaPad U410 hands-on 0:49 CNET UK’s Luke Westaway got his mitts on Lenovo’s lovely pair of laptops at the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas this week. You’ll have to sit and watch the action for now, as the company’s latest ultrabooks await a spring release date in the UK. Then you …